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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Social cues to the rescue. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Express did a reverse lookup based on my IP Address, matched that with their stores, then checked their ERP system for inventory and got me the answer. Social cues to the rescue.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. People still have to eat, work, etc.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

Both Sides of the Table

easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). social amplification (from which memes are spread) by Twitter and the like; and … commenting. Have a say, a vote. Think American Idol voting, where the audience gets to feel like they’re participating. means specifically one thing.

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Why Lawsuits Are On the Rise at Startups and What To Do About It

Both Sides of the Table

The simple point is that if you control 51% of your company and/or the voting rights you can avoid a lot of headache and you can still be very generous with early people who join your mission. Lawsuits are on the rise. Much money is at stake and founders have been conditioned that suing is ok.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

social network/web analysis/etc. Id then allow digg style voting up of stories in order to bubble things up to the top page of the site. The social aspect comes in when the news stories are tagged by teams. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic. Shocking, I know.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Current investors have pulled the plug until they see some type of progress, an improved management team, perhaps new investors as a vote of confidence. I can’t offer any amazing technology or IP, but I can solve a few problems by just doing it “right”, and not the way it’s being forced on people right now.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. They’ve tried everything.

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